Aegean, version 7.

15, November 2013, Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts, George Douros

Aegean
Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended,
some Punctuation and other Symbols,
Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers,
Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols,
Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Lydian,
Old Italic, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Old Persian,
Cypriot Syllabary and
Ancient Greek Musical Notation.
Cretan Hieroglyphs,
Cypro-Minoan,
Phrygian, Sidetic,
Linear A,
the Arkalochori Axe,
signs on Troy vessels and
the Dispilio tablet.
Local variants of Ancient Greek and Old Italic alphabets.

Aegean.ttf
version 7.15
2013
Aegean is not a merchandise;
it is offered free for any use.

Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts

Bibliography
Arthur J. Evans, Cretan Pictographs and Prae-Phoenician Script, London New York, 1895
The Mycenaean Tree And Pillar Cult, London, 1901
Scripta Minoa The Written Documents Of Minoan Crete, volume I, The Hieroglyphic And Primitive Linear
Classes, Oxford, 1909, SM I
The Palace Of Minos At Knossos, volumes I IV and index, London, 1921 1936, PM I IV
The Ring Of Nestor, London, 1925
Scripta Minoa The Written Documents Of Minoan Crete, volume II, The Archives Of Knossos, Oxford, 1952, SM II
John Chadwick et al., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, volumes: 1 (00011063), 2 (10644499), 3 (5000
7999), 4 (80009947), Cambridge University Press
Luis Godard et Jean-Pierre Olivier, Recueil des Inscriptions en Linaire A, cole Franaise dAthnes, tudes Crtoises XXI:
volumes 1-5, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner (De Boccard, dition-Diffusion), Paris, 1976-1985, GORILA
Polymnia Muhly and Jean-Pierre Olivier, Linear A inscriptions from the Syme sanctuary, Crete, Archaiologiki Ephemeris
147, pp. 197-223, 2008. Sign AB048 is here read and shown to also appear in Linear A; this sign was originally
thought to only occur in Linear B.
Christos Boulotis, Les nouveaux documents en linaire A d'Akrotiri (Thra): remarques prliminaires, pp. 407-411; Olivier
Jean-Pierre, Rougemont Franoise, Recherches rcentes en pigraphie crto-mycnienne, Bulletin de
correspondance hellnique, volume 122, livraison 2, 1998, pp. 403-443. Additional sign A801 is here read and
commented on. Item Akrotiri D18 is displayed on Museum of Prehistoric Thera with number 8366.
Frieda Vandenabeele et Jean-Pierre Olivier, Les Idogrammes Archologiques du Linaire B, cole Franaise dAthnes,
tudes Crtoises XXIV, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1979
UC Berkeley Script Encoding Initiative - Michael Everson and John Younger, Revised proposal for encoding the Linear A
script in the SMP of the UCS, 2010-12-28, http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n3973.pdf, Lin-A
Jean-Pierre Olivier et Luis Godard avec Jean-Claude Poursat, Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae, cole
Franaise dAthnes, tudes Crtoises 31, De Boccard, dition-Diffusion, Paris, 1996, CHIC
Anna Margherita Jasink, Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals, A New Classification of Symbols And Ornamental / Filling Motifs,
Biblioteca di Pasiphae, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma, 2009
Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals (CMS), 1958 2011, CMS
Luis Godart, The Phaistos Disc: the enigma of an Aegean script, photos by Judith Lange, translation by Alexandra Doumas,
Editions Itanos, Athens, 1995
: , Judith Lange,
, , , 1995
Masson Olivier, Les inscriptions chypriotes syllabiques, Requeil critique et comment, Rimpression augmente de
ldition de 1961, tudes Chypriotes, I, cole Franaise dAthnes, De Boccard, dition-Diffusion, Paris, 1983
Masson Emilia, Etudes de vingt-six boules dargile inscrites trouves Enkomi et Hala Sultan Tekke (Chypre), Studies In
Mediterranean Archaeology, volume XXXI: Studies in Cypro-Minoan Scripts, part 1, Gteborg, strms Frlag,
1971, M
Cyprominoica. Rpertoires, Documents de Ras Shamra, Essais dinterprtation, Studies In Mediterranean
Archaeology, volume XXXI: Studies in Cypro-Minoan Scripts, part 2, Gteborg, strms Frlag, 1974
Jean-Pierre Olivier avec Fr. Vandenabeele, dition holistique des textes chypro-minoens, Biblioteca di Pasiphae, Fabrizio
Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma, 2007, O
Silvia Ferrara, CyproMinoan Inscriptions, volume 1: Analysis, volume 2: The Corpus, Oxford University Press, 2013
G. H. Hourmouziadis, ed., Dispilio, 7500 Years After, Thessaloniki, 2002
., , , , 2006.

L. H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, A Study of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and Its Development from
the Eighth to the Fifth Centuries B.C., Revised Edition with Corrections and Supplement by A. W. Johnston, Oxford
Monographs on Classical Archaeology, 1990, Jeffery
Margherita Guarducci, Lepigrafia greca dall origini al tardo impero, Libreria sello Stato, Roma, 1987, Guarducci
, , , , 2008
Bonfante Larissa, The Scripts of Italy in The Worlds Writing Systems, eds. Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 1996
Conway R. S., The Italic Dialects, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1897, Conway
Faulmann Carl, Das Buch der Schrift, Kaiserlich-Kniglichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien, 1880
UC Berkeley Script Encoding Initiative - Christopher C. Little, Survey of Old Italic script use across Italy, in Revised
Proposal to Encode Additional Old Italic Characters, http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4395.pdf, Little
Michel Suignard, project director:
n4381 Draft repertoire for FDAM1 of ISO/IEC 10646:2012 (3rd edition),
n4458 Draft repertoire for FDAM2 of ISO/IEC 10646:2012 (3rd edition),
n4482 Draft additional repertoire Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (4th edition);
http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4381.pdf, n4458.pdf, n4482.pdf
The books by Evans, CHIC and GORILA are available online:
Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Biblioteken der Universitt Heidelberg, http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
LEcole Franaise dAthnes, http://cefael.efa.gr
Internet resources:
POINIKASTAS: Epigraphic Sources For Early Greek Writing, http://poinikastas.csad.ox.ac.uk/introduction.shtml
MNAMON, Antiche Scritture del Mediterraneo, http://lila.sns.it/mnamon, LILA
Diccionario Micnico, Francisco Aura Jorro, http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/diccionariomicenico
DataBases about Aegean Subjects, http://dbas.sciant.unifi.it/index.php?c=home
Arachne images, CMS browser: http://www.arachne.uni-koeln.de/drupal
Documentation of the Aegean font:
Alphabets.docx, tables of local variants of Ancient Greek and Old Italic alphabets.
AegeanText.docx, character repertoire of Aegean in a single paragraph.
AegeanList.xlsx, character repertoire of Aegean in a spreadsheet.
CyproMinoan.docx, Cypro-Minoan inscriptions with images and text in Aegean.
LinearAB.docx, a complete table of Linear A and B glyphs with variants.
CretanHiero.docx, sign indices, palaiographic charts and standardized tables of Cretan Hieroglyphs.
Phaistos.pdf, a vector image of the Phaistos Disc.

Lycian

Lydian

Carian

A
10280 F0270 F0271

10920

102A0

F02A0 F02A1 F02A2 F02A3

102B9 F02BE F02BF F02C0 F02C1

10921

102A1

F02A4 F02A5

102BA

10922 F0920 F0921

102A2

F02A6

102BB

10923

102A3

B
10281 F0272 F0273 F0274

G
10282 F0275

BH

D
10283 F0276

VY

G
10284 F0277 F0278

102BC F02C2

10924 F0922 F0923

102A4

F02A7

102BD

10925

102A5

F02A8 F02A9 F02AA

V
10285 F0279

I
10286 F027A
W

102BE

I
10926

102A6

F02AB

102BF F02C3 F02C4 F02C5

10927

102A7

10928

102A8

F02AC

10929

102A9

F02AD F02AE F02AF

Y
10287

102C0

K
10288

TH

102C1

L
10289 F027B

M
1028A

102C2

1092A

102AA

1092B F0924

102AB

1092C

102AC

1092D

102AD

F02B0 F02B1

102C3

N
1028B F027C F027D

102C4

O
1028C F027E

F02B2

102C5 F02C6

R
1028D F027F

SS
1028E F0280

1092E F0925 F0926 F0927 F0928

102C6 F02C7

102AE

F02B3 F02B4 F02B5

102C7 F02C8

1092F

102AF

F02B6

102C8

10930

102B0

10931 F0929

102B1

10932

102B2

10933

102B3

10934 F092A F092B

102B4

F02B7

102CD

10935

102B5

F02B8

102CE

10936

102B6

10937

102B7

F02B9 F02BA

10938 F092C

102B8

F02BB F02BC F02BD

T
1028F F0281 F0282 F0283 F0284 F0285

MM

U
10290

NN

102C9

F
10291

U
10292
P
10293 F0286 F0287 F0288 F0289 F028A

102CB

KK

102CA

102CC

TT
10294

AN
10295 F028B

EN
10296 F028C F028D

102CF

LY
10297

TT

NN
10298

AN

C
10299 F028E F028F F0290 F0291 F0292 F0293

10939

EN
1029A F0294 F0295 F0296 F0297
H

1029B

X
1029C F0298 F0299 F0299 F029B

1093F F092D F092E F092F

102D0

Phrygian

Sidetic

Phoenician

Ugaritic

Old Persian

A
B

10900

F0900

10380

10390

103A0

103B9

10901

F0901

10381

10391

103A1

103BA

10902

F0902

10382

10392

103A2

103BB

10903

F0903

10383

10393

103A3

103BC

10904

F0904

10384

10394

103A4

103BD

10905

F0905

10385

10395

103A5

103BE

10906

F0906

10386

10396

103A6

103BF

10907

F0907

10387

10397

103A7

103C0

10908

F0908

10388

10398

103A8

103C1

10909

F0909

10389

10399

103A9

103C2

1090A

F090A

1038A

1039A

103AA

103C3

1090B

F090B

1038B

1039B

103AB

103C8

1090C

F090C

1038C

1039C

103AC

103C9

1090D

F090D

1038D

1039D

103AD

103CA

1090E

F090E

1038E

103AE

103CB

1090F

F090F

1038F

103AF

103CC

10910

F0910

103B0

103CD

10911

F0911

103B1

103CE

10912

F0912

103B2

103CF

10913

F0913

103B3

103D0

10914

F0914

103B4

103D1

10915

F0915

103B5

103D2

10916

F0916

103B6

103D3

10917

F0917

103B7

103D4

10918

F0918

103B8

103D5

10919

F0919

1091A

F091A

1091B

F091B

1091F

F091F

O
YV

F
I
K

M
N

O
O
I

1039F

Numbers
0

1018A

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
30
40
50
60
70

FFB49

10141

10175 10176

10177

10140

10178

10107

10159 1015A

10108

1015B 1015C

10109

FFB4A

1010A
1010B

10143

1015F

1010C

1010D

10160 10161 10162 10163 10164

10107

10108

90

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

3000
4000

5000

6000

7000

8000

9000

10109
1010A

1010B

1010C

10000

1010D

20000

1010E

30000

1010F

40000

10111

50000

=10107

10112

10165 F0147 F0148 F0149 F014A FFB4A

10144

10115

60000
70000

10113

10116

80

2000

1010F

10114

1000

1010E

10110

70

10166 10144 10166 10167 10168 10169

80000
90000
100000

10116

10117

10118

10119

1016A

1011A

1011B

1016B

1011C
1011D

10145

F0140 F0141 1016C 1016D 1016E F014B 1016F 10170

1011E

1011F

10120

10121

10122

10171

10123

10124

10125
10126

10146

10127

10128

10129

1012A

1012B

1012C

1012D

1012E
1012F

10147

10130

10131

10132

10133

10172

Measures
10140 03A4

1 :

F0152 F0153

10141

1 :

1014F

1 :

10150

1017C 0399

1 :

10151

1017D

:
2

10152

1017E

:
3

10153 F0143

1017F

:
4

10154

10180

:
5

10155

03A7

0370

10173

10157 F0144 F0145 F0146

10174

10142 1017B F014D F0151

1015D 1015E

1017A F014C

10148

10149

1014A

1014B

1014C F0142

1014D

1014E

1
5
:
10
50
1 :
100
2
1 :
60
5
10
50
100
500
1000
5000

10156

10158

10179 FFABE

10181

10182

10183

10184

1
5
10
50
100
500
1000
10000
50000
: 1016
, 100 , 10

():
12 , 144192
:
: 1 ,
12 ,

10137

10138

10139

1013A

F0100

1013B

F0101

1013C

1013D

F0102

F0103

1013E

1013F

F0104

FFBFE

FFBFF

2 : 2

10190

sextans:
as

10191

uncia:
as

10192

semuncia:
uncia

10193

sextula:
uncia

10194

dimidia sextula:
sextula

10185 F014E

:
12 , 2

10195

siliqua:
solidus

10186 F014F

:
1 3

10196

denarius:
5 asses

10197

quinarius:
denarius

10198

sestertius: 2
asses, denarius

10199

dupondius:
2 asses
as: 1 pound,
12 ounces

10187

10188

10189

:
:
, 20
:

F0150

: 6 ,
() 1 ()

1019A

F0154

: ,
1216 ()

1019B

centurial

Metrical symbols

breve

anceps

23D1

long over short

longum

short over long

23D5

FFD24

FFD25

FFD26

FFD27

FFD28

responsion

Musical Notation

catalexis
tricolon
FFD15

triseme

word end

23D7

FFD16

tetraseme
FFD17

pentaseme

anaclasis

FFD1D

period end

23D8

23D9

FFD23

FFD1C

FFD14

23D6

dovetail

breve - longum

joined shorts

FFD22

FFD1B

FFD13

shorts over long

FFD21

hiatus

aeolian basis

23D4

FFD20

FFD1A

FFD12

long over shorts

FFD19

FFD11

23D3

poem end

FFD10

23D2

Gortyna marks

1D200

1D20E

1D21C

1D22A

1D238

1D201

1D20F

1D21D

1D22B

1D239

1D202

1D210

1D21E

1D22C

1D23A

1D203

1D211

1D21F

1D22D

1D23B

1D204

1D212

1D220

1D22E

1D23C

1D205

1D213

1D221

1D22F

1D23D

1D206

1D214

1D222

1D230

1D23E

1D207

1D215

1D223

1D231

1D23F

1D208

1D216

1D224

1D232

1D240

1D209

1D217

1D225

1D233

1D241

1D20A

1D218

1D226

1D234

1D242

1D20B

1D219

1D227

1D235

1D243

1D20C

1D21A

1D228

1D236

1D244

1D20D

1D21B

1D229

1D237

1D245

ictus

FFD1E

stanza end
FFD18

bridge
FFD1F

Textual symbols
editorial koronis

2E0E

paragraphos

FFD03

FFD04

2E0F

forked paragraphos

2E10

reverse forked paragraphos

2E11

papyrological hypodiastole

FFD05

FFD06

2E12

keravnion
FFD00

obelos
FFD01

dotted obelos

2E13

downward ancora

FFD07

FFD08

2E14

upward ancora

2E15

diple aperistiktos
FFD02

diple periestigmene

2E16

diple periestigmene

FFD09

FFD0A

FFD09

FFD0A

2E16

OpenType features
Lycian, Stylistic Alternates <salt>

Carian, Stylistic Alternates <salt>

Lydian, Stylistic Alternates <salt>

Phoenician, Stylistic Set 1 <ss01>

Linear B (for Aegean and Ancient Greek Numbers), Access All Alternates <aalt>

Greek, Case-Sensitive Forms <case>

Greek, Stylistic Alternates <salt>, Historical Forms <hist>

various scripts, Fractions <frac>

1/4 1/2 3/4 1/3 2/3 1/5 ... 1/10

...

various scripts, Numerators <numr> Superscript <sups>, Oldstyle Figures <onum>, Denominators <dnom> Subscript <subs>

0123456789
01234
56789
0123456789
Cypriot Syllabary, Stylistic Sets 16 <ss01...ss06>; shown in the Cypriot Syllabaries chapter below.

Cypriot Syllabaries
Variants of the Cypriot Syllabary (0) are encoded in Plane 15, as follows:
1 Idalion

F1700...F1735:

2 Akanthou
3 Eteocypriot

F1736...F1760:
F1761...F17A4:

4 Ancient Paphian F17A5...F17DB:

6 Tsepis stele

The first variant in each column is available as an Open Type Stylistic Set ss01...ss06.
0

PA

PE

PI

PO

PU

JA

RA

JE

RE

JO

RI

KA

RO

KE

RU

KI

SA

KO

SE

KU

SI

LA

SO

LE

SU

LI

TA

LO

TE

LU

TI

MA

TO

ME

TU

MI

WA

MO

WE

MU

WI

NA

WO

NE

XA

NI

XE

NO

ZA

NU

ZO

Cypro-Minoan
Cypro-Minoan scripts are encoded in Plane 15, as follows:
CM 0: F1000 F1016
CM 1: F1017 F10A9

CM 2: F10AA F10F0
CM 3: F10F1 F1136

CM 1

CM 2 CM 3

CM 1

CM 2

CM 3

001

046

085

002

047

086

004

049

087

005

050

088

006

051

089

007

052

090

008

053

091

009

054

092

010

055

094

011

056

095

012

058

096

012b

059

097

013

060

098

015

061

099

017

062

100

019

063

101

021

064

102

023

066

103

024

067

104

025

068

105

026

069

107

027

070

108

028

071

109

029

072

110

030

073

112

033

074

114

034

075

201

035

076

202

036

078

037

079

038

080

039

081

040

082

041

083

&

044

084

CM 1

CM 2

(see CyproMinoan.docx for the corpus of Cypro-Minoan inscriptions with images and text in Aegean)

CM 3

Linear A and B
Signs are arranged according to the following scheme (the Wingspread Convention up to A743):
AB 001 191
B
A
A
A
A
A
A
A

200 299
301 371
400 418
501 664
701 713
714 743
800 807
900 908

signs in both A and B, with some exceptions: A028b, A101, A120b, A131c and B012, B014, B015, B018, B019, B025, B032,
B033, B036, B042, B043, B052, B062, B063, B064, B068, B071, B072, B075, B083, B089, B090, B091
signs only in B
signs only in A: 311, 313, 330, 337 341, 348 and 351 appear only with others; 340 371 appear only once
vases
complex signs (ligatures); in numeric order (1st, 2nd, etc)
simple fractions
complex fractions
additions to GORILA
punctuation, etc.

The table below has the structure:

volume.page in GORILA

parts

Linear A glyphs

Linear B name

parts

Linear B glyphs

meaning

codepoint

B number

codepoint

3.152
AB001

DA
10600

F0501
3.184

B001

10005

3.196

AB002

RO
10601

F0503

F0504

B002

10602

F0506

F0507

F0508

B003

10603

F050A

F050B

F050C

B004

AB003

1002B

F0000

1001E

F0001

10033

F0002

10035

F0004

10030

F000C

PA

AB004

TE
F0003

4.46
AB005

TO
10604

F050E

B005

...

...

...

...

.....

.....

...

...

...

...

.....

.....
SO
B012
...

...
.....
...

...
.....
...

...
.....
...

...
.....
2.7
A807
10767

F0831

(see LinearAB.docx for the complete table)

F000D

Cretan Hieroglyphs
(see CretanHiero.docx for a complete sign index, a chart of variant signs and the rest of the following table)

Cretan Hieroglyphs or
Conventionalized Pictographs SM I

Tableau des signes standardiss

001

051

101

001

051

155

002

052

102

002

052

156

003

053

103

003

053

157

004

054

104

004

054

158

005

055

105

005

055

159

006

056

106

006

056

159

007

057

107

007

057

160

008

058

108

008

058

161

009

059

109

009

059

162

010

060

110

010

060

163

011

061

111

011

061

164

012

062

112

012

062

165

013

063

113

013

063

166

014

064

114

014

064

167

015

065

115

015

065

168

016

066

116

016

066

169

017

067

117

017

067

170

018

068

118

018

068

171

019

069

119

019

069

172

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...
...

...
...

...
...

...
...

...
...

...
...
...
...

033

083

133

033

083

304

034

084

134

034

084

305

035

085

135

035

085

306

036

086

036

086

307

037

087

037

087

308

038

088

038

088

309

039

089

039

089

040

090

040

090

401

041

091

041

091

402

042

092

042

092

403

043

093

043

093

404

044

094

044

094

405

045

095

045

095

501

046

096

136

046

096

502

047

097

136

047

151

601

048

098

137

048

152

602

049

099

138

049

153

603

050

100

139

050

154

604

Phaistos Disc
The Phaistos Disk symbols are encoded with LTR directionality in Unicode (blue are extra alternates in F01D0 F01E7):

They are, thus, mirror images of the symbols on the disk itself (see Phaistos.pdf for a vector image of the disc). Aegean also
encodes (in F0200 F0247) the above glyphs with RTL directionality. They are shown below, typed from right to left:

Side A presented with LTR directionality:

Side A presented with RTL directionality:

Side B presented with LTR directionality:

Side B presented with RTL directionality:


Aegean encodes these signs in the range FFF20 FFF31 of Plane 15.

Signs found on vessels from Troy, excavated by Heinrich Schliemann. They appeared in the exhibition "Troy and Thrace", in
the spring of 1983 at the State Museum of Fine Arts, in Moscow (http://kladina.narod.ru/kazanskiy/kazanskiy.htm).

2444
FFF20

FFF21

FFF22

FFF23

FFF24

FFF25

FFF26

FFF27

FFF28

FFF2A

FFF2B

FFF2C

FFF2D

FFF2E

FFF2F

FFF30

FFF31

FFF29

2445

Aegean encodes these signs in the range FFF00 FFF0E of Plane 15.

FFF00

FFF01

FFF02

FFF03

FFF04

FFF05

FFF06

FFF07

FFF08

FFF09

FFF0A

FFF0B

FFF0C

FFF0D

FFF0E

Aegean encodes these signs in the range FFF40 FFF69 of Plane 15.

The Dispilio Tablet (also known as the Dispilio Scripture or the Dispilio Disk) is a wooden tablet bearing inscribed markings
(), unearthed during George Hourmouziadiss excavations of Dispilio in Greece; it is carbon 14-dated to about
7300 BP (5260 BC). It was discovered in 1993 in a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an artificial island near the
modern village of Dispilio on Lake Kastoria in Kastoria Prefecture, Greece. The tablets discovery was announced at a
symposium in February 1994 at the University of Thessaloniki. The sites paleoenvironment, botany, fishing techniques,
tools and ceramics were published informally in the June 2000 issue of , a Greek archaeology magazine and by
Hourmouziadis in 2002. There is no academic publication of the tablet.